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Re: lilypond woks!
From: |
Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
Subject: |
Re: lilypond woks! |
Date: |
06 Jan 2002 12:41:42 +0100 |
"Robert F. mudde" <address@hidden> writes:
Hi Robert,
> this night I had a brain wave (don't worry, in my case that doesn't mean to
> much). At home we have two computers in a small network. The one that we all
> most often use is a relative new one, with lots of software on it. The
> second computer is the old one. Now the point is: that old one has no latex
> installed. So I figured, lets try lilypond on this one, as it seems that
> there were conflicts with the various Texs running. Besides the old PC uses
> windows98 and the new one windowsME.
>
> And guess what: it works!!!
That's good to hear. I'm pleased that you didn't give up!
> All I had to do is change the name of the home
> directory, just like yesterday, to remove the space. Then, I run ly2dvi on
> the foo.ly file. To my dissapointment it gave the same latex errors. But I
> ran it 5 times and surprise surprise all in a sudden there was the magic: a
> dvi and ps file was created.
Yes, that's because in the current setup, the cygwin environment work
well with the windows miktex. Hopefully, we'll have a more robust
Windows installation in a few weeks; we've been working on that for
some time now.
> Now the remaining problems are: gsview32 does not run on the old
> computer
Why not? Did you try the older version too (the install offers two
versions)?
> and how to print ps-files if only an Epson850 is present.
Well, if ghostscript runs, you can do the conversion by hand. If you
type
gs --help
you'll see the devices it can convert to. You'll
gs -sDEVICE=epson -OutputFile=lpt1 foo.ps
or so.
> Gs can produce pdf-files which
> can be printed here at home. Unfortunately the printing quality is no match
> to the original ps-file.
Yes, there's been some discussions about pdf and windows, but I don't
know much about that. You may find something by searching the mail archives:
http://lilypond.org/search/
> So you see: one more happy user is about to start!!!!!!
Ha, we'll quote you on that!
> Thanks very much for the help!!!!! If we run into new problems, we certainly
> now how to find you, haha.
Ok, but please find me through the mailing list ;-)
Jan.
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org